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July 25, 2019 • APG News B5 work, and then how to respond, either with ACTIVE evacuation, barricading and even direct response. According to the Federal Emergency Continued from Page B1 Management Agency website at training. fema.gov, an active shooter is an individual something you’ve done,” Ryker said. “I’ve actively engaged in killing or attempting to still barricaded a door, I’ve still evacuat- kill people in a confined and other populat- ed a building, I’ve still countered a shoot- ed area. In most cases, active shooters use er. When you go to do it again in real life, firearms and there is no pattern or method your brain is already set up to go back to their selection of victims. Active shoot- to what you’ve done before, that’s why er situations are unpredictable and evolve we think the small group scenario train- quickly. ing is so much more effective than just a According to alicetraining.com, ALICE briefing.” training, in response to an active shoot- Cook, in between small training ses- er situation, trains students how to “pro- sions, was even blunter. “This training,” he actively handle the threat of an aggressive said, “will save lives.” intruder or active shooter event” instead Cook and Ryker give briefs about what of using the “traditional lockdown only to do, but the “rubber meets the road” dur- approach.” ing their small group scenarios. Members of PEO IEW&S and Program Execu- Photo by John Higgins, PEO IEW&S tive Office Command Control Communi- cations-Tactical (PEO C3T) were given Kyle Perkins, chief of staff for Program Executive Office Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Sensors, right, aims a weap- intense training, first about hiding doesn’t on simulator at Philip Cook, a physical security specialist and active shooter training instructor with Program Executive Office Missiles and Space, during Active Shooter Training in the Myer Auditorium, July, 17, 2019. HYDROGEN Continued from Page B1 ships for purposes not already covered by H2 Power. Interested parties may still contact the laboratory, he said. “The initial notice generated a lot of inter- est,” Giri said. “One company has already been given the exclusive license for a partic- ular use, but several other companies are in negotiations.” The company that received the first rights is H2 Power, LLC of Chicago. According to the agreement, the license grants the right to use the patent in automotive and transporta- tion power generation applications related to “2/3/4/6 wheeled vehicles, such as motorcy- cles, all sizes of cars, minivans, vans, SUV, pick-up trucks, panel trucks other light and medium trucks up to 26,000 pounds and any size bus.” H2 Power may also use the patent for pow- er generation applications via “generators and micro-grid equipment that generates 15 kilo- watts and above.” “Imagine a squad of future Soldiers on a long range patrol far from base with dead bat- teries and a desperate need to fire up their Photo by David McNally, CCDC ARL radio,” said Dr. Kris Darling, a prominent Dr. Anit Giri, a scientist with the U.S. Army CCDC Army Research Laboratory, observes a sample of a unique aluminum materials scientist at CCDC ARL. “One of the nanomaterial powder that reacts with water to produce hydrogen. Soldiers reaches for a metal tablet and drops it into a container and adds water or some fluid “It was discovered just a few years ago, so a “It’s important because the Army can ben- ities Development Command. As the Army’s that contains water such as urine, immediately manufacturing base doesn’t exist. That’s why efit from this product being produced,” Dar- corporate research laboratory, ARL discovers, the tablet dissolves and hydrogen is released we’re going to work directly with the people ling said. innovates and transitions science and technol- into a fuel cell, providing instant power for licensing this technology -- so they can build Giri said he is already in close contact with ogy to ensure dominant strategic land power. the radio.” the infrastructure and gain the manufacturing H2 Power representatives. Through collaboration across the command’s The powder has many advantages, Darling science and engineering to be able to rapid- “They are very excited about the potential core technical competencies, CCDC leads in said, such as energy and power source; stable ly scale this.” applications,” Giri said. “We’re looking for- the discovery, development and delivery of alloy powder; environmentally friendly; scal- Having the manufacturing base is impor- ward to working with them to make this tech- the technology-based capabilities required to able hydrogen production; easily transportable tant, he said because it opens up the technol- nology available to the U.S. Army.” make Soldiers more lethal to win the nation’s and feed stock for additive manufacturing. ogy for commercial applications as well as The CCDC Army Research Laboratory is wars. CCDC is a major subordinate com- “This material is unique,” Darling said. DOD applications. an element of the U.S. Army Combat Capabil- mand of the U.S. Army Futures Command. DID YOU KNOW? presented the Medal of Honor to Rubin during a White House July 27 is National Korean ceremony. Rubin was the 18th Jewish recipient of the Medal War Veterans Armistice Day. of Honor since it was created during the Civil War by President Abraham Lincoln. The Korean War lasted from June 25, 1950 to July 27, “It would have been nice if they had given me the medal when 1953. More than 326,000 U.S. troops participated in the I was a young handsome man,” mused Rubin. “It would have “Forgotten War” that occurred between World War II and opened a lot of doors.” Vietnam. Rubin died Dec. 5, 2015, at his home in Garden Grove, Of the 145 military personnel who have been awarded California. He was 86 years old. He was a longtime volunteer at the Medal of Honor for valor in combat during the Korean the Long Beach Veterans Hospital, with more than 20,000 hours War, 103 medals were awarded posthumously. of volunteer work, and in November, 2016, President Barack Tibor “Ted” Rubin Obama signed legislation renaming the Long Beach California VA Medical Center the Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center. Rubin was a Hungarian-born Holocaust survivor who Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.org Tibor Rubin is one of the Korean War heroes honored in the emigrated to the U.S. in 1948 and served in the Army 2013 documentary “Finnigan’s War,” directed by Conor Timmis. during the Korean War. When Rubin was 13, his parents Tibor Rubin wearing the Medal of Honor he received at the White House. His Medal of Honor citation reads: tried to send him to safety from the Nazis in Switzerland, but “For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his he was caught and sent to the Mauthausen concentration life above and beyond the call of duty: Corporal Tibor Rubin camp in Austria. He was liberated 14 months later by American combat troops, distinguished himself by extraordinary heroism during the period from July 23, but his parents and two sisters perished in the camp. Rubin idolized his liberators 1950, to April 20, 1953, while serving as a rifleman with Company I, 8th Cavalry and swore one day he would “fight alongside them.” He got his wish when he was Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division in the Republic of Korea. While his unit was retreating accepted into the Army and was sent to Korea in 1950. to the Pusan Perimeter, Corporal Rubin was assigned to stay behind to keep open Rubin faced stiff antisemitism from some noncommissioned officers. While the vital Taegu-Pusan Road link used by his withdrawing unit. During the ensuing assigned to I Company, 8th Cavalry Regiment, First Cavalry Division, Rubin secured battle, overwhelming numbers of North Korean troops assaulted a hill defended a route of retreat for his rifle company by single-handedly defending a hill for 24 solely by Corporal Rubin. He inflicted a staggering number of casualties on the hours against waves of North Korean soldiers. For this and other acts of bravery, he attacking force during his personal 24-hour battle, single-handedly slowing the was recommended four times for the Medal of Honor by two of his commanding enemy advance and allowing the 8th Cavalry Regiment to complete its withdrawal officers. Both officers were killed in action a short time later but not before instructing successfully. Following the breakout from the Pusan Perimeter, the 8th Cavalry the unit’s senior NCO to begin the paperwork for the Medal of Honor. More than a Regiment proceeded northward and advanced into North Korea. During the dozen of Rubin’s fellow Soldiers swore on affidavits that the NCO refused to follow advance, he helped capture several hundred North Korean soldiers. On October the officer’s orders due to his antisemitism and that he consistently “volunteered” 30, 1950, Chinese forces attacked his unit at Unsan, North Korea, during a massive Rubin for the most dangerous missions and patrols. nighttime assault. That night and throughout the next day, he manned a .30 In October 1950, Rubin’s regiment was overwhelmed by waves of Chinese troops caliber machine gun at the south end of the unit’s line after three previous gunners that were attacking unprepared American forces deep in North Korea. Rubin was became casualties. He continued to man his machine gun until his ammunition was wounded and captured and he spent the next 30 months in a Chinese prisoner of exhausted. His determined stand slowed the pace of the enemy advance in his war camp.